For Your Eyes Only. Poster of the 1981 movie and cover of the 1960 book
VS3
For Your Eyes Only
Ian Fleming, 1960
movie vs book
John Glen, 1981

The British information gathering vessel St Georges, which holds the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator, the system used by the Ministry of Defence to communicate with and co-ordinate the Royal Navy’s fleet of Polaris submarines, is sunk after accidentally trawling an old naval mine in the Ionian Sea. A marine archaeologist, Sir Timothy Havelock, who had been asked by the British to secretly locate the St Georges, is murdered.


Mr. Quilp. Poster of the 1975 movie and cover of the 1840 book, The Old Curiosity Shop
VS3
The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens, 1840
movie vs book
Michael Tuchner, 1975

Musical version of Charles Dickens tale The old curiosity shop. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.